Mattis Orders 80% of Key Fighter Jets Ready For War Within One Year

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has called on the Pentagon to bring at least 80 percent of its key fighter jets to combat readiness. For a country always at war with someone, surprisingly few of its warplanes are kept sky-worthy.
Consistent with Washington’s increasingly saber-rattling rhetoric, the world’s largest military is putting its money where its mouth is. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has ordered the Air Force and Navy to increase their mission-capable rates for four major aircraft to 80 percent over the next twelve months, throwing the spotlight on the lamentable state of the nation’s airborne fleet. The mid-September memo was seen exclusively by Defense News.

US Corporations’ September 30th fiscal payment deadlineSep 30, 2019USAEach year around that time, as the payment deadline approaches, we see all sorts of maneuvers. The US Corporate government seeks to roll over its payments past the deadline.